Future of Fisheries: Perspectives for Emerging Professionals

Casting a Wide Net: Integrating Diverse Disciplines and Skillsets in Fisheries Policy Careers

Kristine D. Lynch and Kelly M. Pennington

doi: https://doi.org/10.47886/9781934874387.ch42

Do you like to study many different fields, learn from people with diverse worldviews, find creative ways to adapt to changing conditions, and integrate everything you learn to solve complex social and scientific problems? If so, you may enjoy a career in fisheries policy. In this essay, we discuss how our backgrounds as interdisciplinary fisheries scientists served us well in the fisheries policy world. We hope that after reading this essay you will understand if and how to approach the policy field as one of many options available to you after completing
your graduate degree.